Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I live in a former hotel that use to be where the Gandy Dancers stayed while working on the railroad. I am a retired teacher and a businessman at the Hadley Store where I sold archery and hunting supplies. I was a Fulbright Scholar to Argentina in 1963-64. I’ve done a lot of traveling in the United States and abroad. I’m an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and I love telling stories. I belong to the Pope and Young club, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and I volunteer at the Greenville Railroad Museum. I have written many stories over the years with some being published in Newspapers and Magazines. More recently I decided to have those stories published. I’ve written several of different genre but have currently published 3 books thus far with more coming out this year.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“1763: A Boy” is my latest book. My love of the Allegheny and the Ohio Rivers combined with the love of the frontier of the forts and the Delaware Indians, their activity and influence on the formation of the Pennsylvania that we know today.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I sleep with a tablet near my bed that allows me to expand my inspiration 24 hours a day. My imagination, news on tv, radio, newspapers, and magazines give me ideas which I like to put in local habitation.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Faulkner, Hemingway, Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Wallace Stegner, Ivan Doig,Thomas Keneally, Cormac McCarthy, and Edward Abbey. English authors like Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Somerset Maugham.
What are you working on now?
A novel that takes place in Mercer, Pennsylvania. A second edition collection of Short Stories. Writing a second novel of the Frontier Trilogy with Jonathan Mercer.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
All manner including door to door, word of mouth, Youtube book video trailers, social media, and book clubs.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, Write, Write. Research, Research, Research. Read, Read, Read.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Brush away the rejections.
What are you reading now?
Any and all short stories, “The American Sniper,” “The Spy” by James Fenimore Cooper, “The Deerslayer,” “Cervantes,” and Dos Passos.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To expand our reader base.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Hemingway “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Cormac McCarthy “Blood Meridian”
Harper Lee “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Edward Abbey “The Monkey Wrench Gang”
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